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Trip to Taipei!

Well the appointment this morning (Wednesday) is behind us. As far as we have been told the paperwork is all done! Last night was the first night that they moved Daniel to our room. We prayed that this would go well as it was completely new for him. He slept the WHOLE night!! We are pretty much on our schedule now instead of the sleeping and eating regiment of the THOGL. This is allowing us to figure out what will work best (just so we can change it all around again after we arrive home). I have learned that when a baby wants to eat, they are persistent!! Tanya was in the back seat with Daniel on the ride this morning and witnessed his "adorable" screaming as she rushed to get the bottle ready. The "interview" was a piece of cake. It was basically a couple questions from behind a ticket window and a few signatures. Right now (1:30pm) he is sleeping and we are resting. Tomorrow Ted will be taking Tanya and I along with the other family that is here to some type of canyon or gorge that is said to be very beautiful. Daniel will stay here with his wonderful babysitters as they do not recommend that infants go on this hike :) The food has been wonderful (if you do not mind rice for lunch and dinner everyday); Peru team, I know you are jealous now :) We have great hosts and the country is very beautiful. We are enjoying our time here but also ready to get home and start our life with Daniel there. Thank you again for all your prayers!!

Blessings

Wow, what a trip it's been so far! Daniel is precious beyond words. Josh is a wonderful daddy. He is learning very quickly. Our firsts have been quite interesting. Changing Daniel's first diaper was done on the floor in the corner of a YMCA. Preparing his first bottle was done in the back of the van while driving. It was pretty humorous, Josh was a little too slow & Daniel was screaming till it was ready. His first car ride with us was in our arms (no carseat laws). My first time eating while holding him was done with chopsticks!! Our first time putting him down to bed was in a room with 10 other precious babies. Our first walk with him was around a lake in Lo-tung.

We feel so blessed to have this beautiful baby boy as our son! Please pray for Daniel as he is teething and is fussy. He has not been eating as well and just not quite his happy self (from what they told us). But we are taking it all in stride and learning as we go.

Please keep us in your prayers as we go tomorrow with Daniel to the American Embassy for our interview.

Thanks for all your love & prayers. We look forward to Daniel meeting you all. We have found that he is quite a social baby and very popular among the younger children at the orphanage.

love, Tanya

Learning!!

We are into our second day as parents!! Our first day was quite eventful. I mentioned some of it in the earlier posts. When we finally arrived at the orphanage, Daniel had been traveling for 6 hours that morning. He did very well!! The Home Of Gods Love is such a special place. Everyone here has such a big heart. Bev Skiles has this thing down to a science. She is very strict about schedules for the babies. This ensures that they at least get a little sleep at night! Last night we stayed at a very nice hostel across the street because the they had another couple in the guest room. This was very nice as we were able to get a good night sleep in comfortable air conditioning. We feel more refreshed this morning. Yesterday was tough and I felt like I spent most of it sleepwalking. Tonight through the rest of the week we will be in the guest room here at THOGL. They wait till the third night till they wake us up for the 5am feeding. They figure that this is the time it takes for the jet lag to wear off. I think that if we can get through this week here with Daniel, home should seem easy. We'll see! Daniel has already experienced one of my famously LONG walks (ask the Peru team). We also learned that holding Daniel and eating with chopsticks at the same time is VERY difficult.

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Surprise!!!

So Ted got to the airport around 6:30 and surprise, he has Daniel!!! What a beautiful boy!! He has already warmed up to us. We have fed him and cuddled him in the van. Right now we are sitting in a YMCA in Taipei (it is more like a nice hotel). We are waiting for Ted to return for us. We came her to meet up with another couple who is meeting their son today and now Ted left to go do something else. He said he will return in a half hour or so (3 hours or so if this were Peru) so we are just playing with Daniel and downloading pics and stuff. After this we will go to get some papers and then head to the orphanage.